Observational data of uncrewed systems over Southern Great Plains (SGP)

Uncrewed Systems (UxS), including uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) and tethered balloon/kite systems (TBS), increasingly provide observational opportunities in atmospheric research. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has combined these platforms and the advancement of miniaturized instruments to expand the data collection under various environmental conditions. In 2021 and 2022, observational data, including atmospheric parameters, aerosol properties, gas phase variables and multispectral imagery, were collected over the ARM SGP observatory using ARM UxS platforms, such as TigerShark and ArcticShark UAS's and the tethered balloon system. Those UxS data were archived by the ARM Data Center (https://adc.arm.gov/discovery/#/). In addition, aerosol particles collected from ArcticShark flights were chemically characterized offline using advanced mass spectrometric techniques. In this presentation, we show how to access those data and demonstrate the ability to observe spatial variability of atmospheric parameters and aerosol distribution based on those UxS data. The potential science questions those data can address in Earth system science research will also be discussed.